Sentences with phrase «easy opponents for»

Stoke City at home before our first European game is not bad at all but travelling to Chelsea that weekend is about as bad as we could have wished, so obviously we could do with the Champions League throwing up one of our easier opponents for that matchday.

The Gunners haven't always been the easiest opponents for Antonio Conte since he took over, this trip should remind the Italian of Chelsea's big turning point on their way to the title last term.

Not exact matches

Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

Even for the mayor of New York, which has its fair share of mega-wealthy corporations, declining to court Amazon would have been political malpractice, giving easy fodder to one's opponents.

I think Cain would be an easy mark for Obama, who at this point won't run on his record but on his comparative superiority to his opponent.

It was so easy for Romney to evade and explain away those attacks because his opponents had developed a one - liner critique of the Obamacare and Romneycare.

Cain looked good for a while but it is a lot easier to look good when the media aren't looking into your statements and your opponents are either ignoring you or throwing you little rhetorical bouquets while they attack each other.

It's easy to see how the 29 - year - old could do a job for this United side, who looked sorely lacking of creativity in their recent defeat to Manchester City, when they failed to get a hold of the ball and create much to trouble their opponents.

The hosts are certainly not an easy opponent especially when the big sides come visiting and so the Arsenal side are in for one of their toughest games of the season.

It is certainly not going to be easy for Arsenal to make the top Four, considering our unfriendly fixture list, but if Wenger does manage to finish up there for the 21st season in a row, then it can only be considered another one of his great achievements with the quality of our opponents this season.

But when we have the likes of Iwobi, Chamberlain, Ramsey and untill this season also Walcott not being organized defensively, it is too easy for our opponents.

Arsene Wenger was blamed for overplaying the Chilean however, but it is easy to point the finger at their opponents also.

In every game that MD struggles it starts and ends on the offensive end of the floor - poor execution leads to poor shots, rebound for the opponent, and easy baskets for them at the other end.

Wenger's wizards, considering their current form, don't need any favours from their opponents, but facing an injury - hit Liverpool side might make the job a little easier for Arsenal.

The Gunners may have won two games in a row, but they have been far from easy wins over inferior opponents, which is what the fans expected at the beginning of this week and questions are now being asked about the lack of commitment from everyone in the side except for newboy Alexis Sanchez.

This is a general problem which time and time again makes it relatively easy for even mediocre opponents to play and score against us.

Steven Fletcher stole the show with a hat - trick but his side were shocked in the first half when Gibraltar scored their first ever competitive international goal, through Lee Casciaro, but the hosts proved to be too strong for their opponents and ran out easy winners.

In some ways the current side are great and we can play brilliantly but every now and then, like last night against Monaco, we go missing and make it so easy for our opponents to beat us.

Why cant we play more direct game?we pass too much without purpose which is easy for opponents to defend, our build up should be alittle fast so that opponent defenders can make mistakes, but man we are too slow..

Its so easy for our opponents to get a one on one vs our keeper.

so teams just get past our midfield the way they like... and the likes of the wingers to support the full backs are always jogging as well instead of closing down opponent... so it makes it so easy for us to concede cheap goals no matter how you blame our cb... although I don't bliv in the likes of Gabriel and mustaphi either....

2) Invitation to attack us — Arsenal football philosophy had quietly shifted and now we were inviting opponents to come and attack us as they would see we were not operating in full attack gears and it was easy for them to get into our defending side of the pitch much quicker as they countered lesser bodies on the way.

Southampton's schedule is about the same as Swansea's (the two opponents not in common have 85 points for Southampton and 88 for Swansea) except Swansea has an extra home game and gets a tough opponent and an easy opponent instead of two mid-table ones.

Big LOL for PSG fans now hahaha... No easy drawing or underestimate our next opponent.

They're created by the networks and not just the two participating schools, making it easier for national - title hopefuls or aspiring Top 25 programs to find quality opponents.

He pressurized the opponent's attackers, made the defending job easier for Pique.

You all know the saw about any team can beat any other on any given night blah blah blah, there really aren't any easy games in this League anymore... All true, but if ever there was a series the Pens looked several levels better than their opponent in the Playoffs in this the 3rd go around for the Mike Sullivan Penguins it is this series.

After her easy victory over her Chinese opponent, the linesmen were among those who besieged Navratilova for her autograph.

I thought the same thing, kinda sad screen away fans are louder than ours and you look at the score we are not even losing making it easy for the opponents to put pressure on us.

Ideally, I hope for a young team we get to play the easier opponents first, and then the more difficult opponents towards the end of the season.

Every opponent demands a well organized challenge, Wenger comes time and time again with the same strategy, exposing the team for easy picking.

South Korea are looking a much improved team from the one that suffered a couple of small setbacks in Asian World Cup qualifying, while Greece look very much the part of a team that barely qualified for the finals by finishing second in an easy group and beating an average playoff opponent.

McKeever and new assistant Jasmine Cannady, a recent Sacramento State graduate who played for the Hornets, have emphasized conditioning in practice to open things up in an attempt to score more easy baskets and possibly wear down opponents.

We need forwards who can create their own magic, it makes the job easier for the midfielders and ultimately more difficult for the opponent to stop us.

A home game against Cologne should be an easy start for the Gunners, considering that our opponents have lost all three of their opening games in the Bundesliga this season, but like Arsenal they finished 5th last season which is why we are meeting them tonight.

The deeper the pocket, the harder it is for an opponent to dislodge the ball and the easier it is to break a defender's ankles with a one - on - one dodge.

That's what I think TCU is facing; having the key depth, facing tough in - conference opponents and always fighting uphill is never going to be easy for them.

Opponents don't want to serve to Formico and limit their serving to smaller areas, making it easier for Mitty to cover, allowing Mitty to more easily transition into its offense.

I feel neutralising those strengths became a bit too easy for the opposition though and there wasn't enough variables for opponents to consider while setting up against us.

Anderson would be quick and easy work for Cyborg, Nunes is a much tougher opponent with a previous history at 145.

When the opponents look at Sanchez as their biggest threat, they look to close him down and smother whatever little danger he might pose, subsequently making things a lot easier for the players around the Chilean.

However, breaking down Sutton were not that easy for Arsene Wenger's men as they're opponent were putting on a more defensive setup.

When we play like that, it is not easy for our opponents, even if Monaco played well this evening.

Simply put, this sort of tactical setup puts Ljajic's playmaking front and center, rather than keeping him on the periphery away from the ball, where he is reliant upon other players for his touches and easier confined by opponents.

Things don't get easier for City next weekend; the runners - up from last season take a trip to White Hart Lane, where Spurs are the opponents in what is sure to be a demanding game for...

• Potters goalkeeper Jack Butland has said: «It's far too easy for [opponents] to tip - toe to the bye - line, cut it back and have a tap in.»

Take - ons (attempted dribble past opponent) by team - Dyer with 4 from 11 attempts and Elmohamady with 7 from 9 for Hull although any take - on will be easier if just one person to beat and plenty of surrounding space to work with

My concern is that in the tougher games to come the lack of a third creative outlet will mean, as Tim alluded to already, it will be relatively easy for opponents to close down Alexis and Mesut thereby snuffing out our chance creators.

Another reason could be that this formation was very one - dimensional and therefore easy for the Villans» opponents to predict once they had gotten used to it.

Crotone and Spal, who are both playing for their survival, are not easy opponents.